Promoting Credentials Over Skills

Obama worships credentials, i.e., having degrees. He is less focused on skills and abilities. That is apparent from the lack of successes he has other than staffing the bureaucracy with more people like himself with no marketable skills. Obama's stirring up animosity toward others with skills and wealth can have disastrous results.

[From article]
"When institutions of higher learning turn out highly qualified doctors, scientists, engineers and others with skills that can raise the standard of living of a whole society and make possible a better and longer life, the benefits are obvious.
What is not so obvious, but is painfully true nonetheless, is that colleges and universities can also turn out vast numbers of people with credentials, but with no marketable skills with which to fulfill their expectations. There is nothing magic about simply being in ivy-covered buildings for four years.
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Such political movements cannot promote their agendas without demonizing others, thereby polarizing whole societies. Time and again, their targets have been those who have the skills and achievements that they lack. When they achieve their ultimate success, forcing such people out of the country, as in Uganda in the 1970s or Zimbabwe more recently, the whole economy can collapse.
Against this international background, the current class warfare rhetoric in American politics and ethnic grievance ideology in our schools and colleges, can be seen as the dangerous things they are."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/01/18/an_ignored_disparity_part_ii

An Ignored 'Disparity': Part II
Thomas Sowell
January 18, 2012
TownHall.com